Cumdump: an emerging kink for queer men

Cumdump is a specific sexual behaviour that has increased in popularity over the last few years amongst queer men. It describes receiving semen inside the rectum, and sometimes in the mouth, from multiple men, sometimes in an anonymous setting, and sometimes within established or casual sexual and romantic partners. This essay is a report of the experiences of queer men practicing cumdump from their own voices through informal conversations to explore the sexual behaviour in depth, and to examine it as an emerging kink with its own subculture within the queer men’s bareback culture. It is not a formal scientific study. Through the conversations, several common themes emerged: psychological arousal, intense physical pleasure, anticipation and violating prohibition as cornerstones of eroticism, cumdump as a kink, the entry to becoming a cumdump, and being a cumdump: preparation, time commitment, performance endurance and satisfaction. The clinical implication is for mental health professionals to be culturally competent in working with this population and not unduly pathologise sexual behaviours that are considered “niche”, as well as making an appropriate sex-positive and kink-informed assessment with queer men who practice or identify as cumdumps.